Amid the Corn with Cristina Potters

Cristina Potters is back with us for another information-packed episode, this time we talk about corn! Corn tops rice and wheat for the most produced crop in the world. Corn is over 7000 years old and originated in central Mexico. Cristina gives us a glimpse into the world of corn!

Cristina is a Chicago native, arrived in Mexico in 1981.  After several years as a social worker in the Tijuana city jail, she lived in Mexico City, then in a tiny village in Michoacán, and subsequently resided for many years in the state of Jalisco, including in Guadalajara. Long a permanent fixture in Morelia, Michoacán, she holds dual Mexican and United States citizenship.

 

Cristina learned the cuisines of the central highlands of Mexico from the source: the mayoras (extraordinary older home cooks) who have been her friends for over 40 years. She has mastered the intricacies of many traditional Mexican recipes, flavors, and of course, the delights of the pre-Hispanic corn and chile kitchen.

 

Mexico Cooks!, Cristina’s website about all things Mexico, has been named the number one food blog in the world by the London Times. Praised and quoted in newspapers as diverse as the New York Times, Guadalajara’s El Mural, the South China Morning Post, and the Chicago Tribune, Mexico Cooks!  is the internet’s most authoritative voice about the cuisines and cultures of central Mexico. The first person to write online in English about Mexico’s cuisines, she is cited as the go-to expert on Mexico in Lonely Planet Mexico and is quoted in Time Out Mexico City. Cristina and Mexico Cooks! currently boast between six and seven million readers throughout the world.

 

CRISTINAS’S LINKS:

• Website: Mexico Cooks!
• Twitter: @mexicocooks
• Facebook: Mexico Cooks
• Instagram: @mexicocooks44
• Email: patalarga@gmail.com

 

Women Beyond a Certain Age is an award-winning weekly podcast hosted by Denise Vivaldo. She brings her own lively, humorous, and experienced viewpoint to the topics she discusses with her guests. The podcast covers wide-ranging subjects of importance to older women.

 

SHOW LINKS

• Website: https://womenbeyond.podbean.com
• Join our Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/WomenBeyond/
• Follow our Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/WomenBeyond/
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/womenbeyondacertainage/
• Episode archive: https://womenbeyond.podbean.com
• Email us: WomenBeyond@icloud.com
• Denise Vivaldo’s info lives here: https://denisevivaldogroup.com/
• More of Denise’s info is here: https://denisevivaldo.com
• Cindie Flannigan’s info lives here: https://linktr.ee/cindieflannigan
• Denise and Cindie’s books: https://www.amazon.com/stores/Denise-Vivaldo/author/B001K8QNRA